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Show VAlttoF fat. 't : - ;cT" i ?- .1 v i a t'nl Lj5 1. Funeral of Arthur Grlftitii. president of Dnll EIreann, in Dublin. 2. New 'aerial limousine" purchased for officials of Tost Office department. 3. Schooner Elizabeth llowurd. New" York's entry In international Usher-men's Usher-men's cup races nt Gloucester In October. ex-xervlevf men. The second, by Simmons Sim-mons of North Caroliuu, Democrat, provides that the Interest on the foreign for-eign debt shall be used to pay the bonus. Doth of these amendments Kill make more difficult the task of adjustment between the house and senate bills, and for this reason they vere supported by many senators who are avowedly opposed to the bonus. The Simmons amendment Is directly contrary to the wishes of the administration adminis-tration as expressed often by President Harding and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon. Probably the bill will be got out of conference as speedily as possible, pos-sible, as the congressmen who support It wish to reap the political benefits in the fall campaign, but the feeling in Washington at this time h that President Presi-dent Harding Is likely to veto the measure. CALIFORNIA'S primary election attracted at-tracted the Interest of the country hist week. Senator Hiram Johnson won his tight for renoinlnhtlon, defeating C. C Moore ; all the Incumbent congressmen con-gressmen were renominated: Stats Treusuier F. W. Richardson bent Gov. W. D. Stephens for the Republican gubernatorial nomination; District Attorney At-torney T. L. Woolwlne was nominated for governor by the Democrats. He Is somewhat "wet" while Richardson is decidedly "dry " AUSTRIA, bankrupt and In every way dlstresxed, has become a bons of serious contention , between Italy und the little entente. Plans for an economic union between Italy and Austria, Aus-tria, which might result later in the virtual absorption of the latter, have been put forward, and are said to have the approval of Great Rrltaln and Franco. The scheme would relieve re-lieve Austria's most pressing needs and give her an outlet to the Adriatic, and would satisfy the growing Italian sentiment for expansion. Rut Jugoslavia, Jugo-slavia, Italy's rival for control of the Adriatic, doesn't want lltaly strengthened, strength-ened, and furthermore she wants to grab the Austrian district of Klagen-furt. Klagen-furt. Rumors that Serbian Irregulars were , about to Invade that region stirred up a lot of excitement In European Eu-ropean capitals, end Jugo-Slavia was constrained to deny any Intention of Invading the district and to promise to restrain the Irregulars. The Czechoslovaks were credited with a hankering to seize the northern provinces prov-inces of Austria In case of dismemberment dismember-ment of the succession republic. Budapest Buda-pest heard that both these little entente en-tente nations were planning to send troops through Hungarian territory Into Austria, and Count Andrassy, chairman of the Hungarian foreign affairs af-fairs committee, declared" Hungary would resist this, adding that Hungary, Hun-gary, though weak, "may prove dangerous dan-gerous In case of such an Insult." NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENHVENTS Government Gets Sweeping Injunction In-junction Restraining the Striking Shopmen. THREAT OF GENERAL STRIKE Senate Parses the. Bonus Bill With Two Important Amendments Senator Sen-ator Johnson Renominated by California Cal-ifornia Republicans Germany Gets Six Months' Respite. . By EDWARD Wi PICKARD TAKING organized labor, and the general public, entirely by surprise, i ue United Slates government last Friday Fri-day obtained from Federal Judge J. 11. Wilkerson In Chicago a temporary la-Junction la-Junction which, If fully enforced, will make It Impossible for the railway . shopmen to carry on their strike. Such Is the view of It taken by the union leaders, who, while protesting bitterly, pledge compliance with at least a part of the order. The Injunction, obtained by Attorney General Dougherty In person, prohibits leaders of the striking shopmen and of other unions from : Issuing any Instruction or public statetment to members of their organizations or-ganizations to induce them to do or suy anything to cause any railway employee em-ployee to leave his work or to cause any person to abstain from entering employmeut of a railroad. Using funds of unions In furtherance of any act forbidden In Injunction. All officers and members of unions or their agents are restrained from : Engaglug In picketing. In any manner, by letters, circulars, telegrams, telephone messages, by word of mouth or by Interviews, encouraging en-couraging any person to leave the employ em-ploy of s railroad or to refrain from entering such employ. Interfering with or obstructing any railway. Hindering Inspection, repair or equipment of locomotives or cars. Conspiring or agreeing to hinder rail roads In the transportation of passengers, passen-gers, property und mails. Interfering with employees going to or returning from work, "by displays of force or numbers, threats. ! Intimidations, Intimida-tions, nets of violence, opprobrious epithets, epi-thets, Jeers, taunts, or entreaties." Loitering at or near places of Ingress In-gress and egress for employees. Trespassing on Hie premises of any railrond, or any other place except "where the public generally are Invited In-vited to come to transact business." Doing any Injury or bodily harm to any employee of a railroad. On September 11 Judge Vvllkersoii will hear arguments on the motion to make the injunction permanent. Two days earlier the executive council of ill American Fedeisnlon of Labor viJ hold a previously arranged meeting In Washington, and. according to Presl-lent Presl-lent t'tinpers, It will consider the advisable ad-visable ?y of calling a general strike of rganl.l labor. ' Gompers denounced ibe Injunction as "most outrageous" .mil tnori iian Intimated that Its provisions pro-visions wo 'M be Ignored by la.or leaders. lead-ers. He sti'd a general strike would have to be Indorsed by the various units which make up the federation, and added that there was already a widespread demand for such action. President Harding, according to Rtitliorltatlve Information from Washington, Wash-ington, while admitting the Injunction Is the most sweeping ever obtained In the United States, has expressed a determination de-termination to go yet further. If neccs-j neccs-j ary to maintain transportation, and 's prepared to accept any consequences, political or ecoiiomli which may result re-sult from the government's action. He , feels that he is thus protecting the I rights of the public, but organized labor s(iys he has aligned the government govern-ment on the side of the railway executives. execu-tives. The executive council cf the railway eniployeer' department of the A. F. of L. Issued h statement to the effect that enforcement of the Inlunctlon ngrtrh.st lawlessness anil violence the shop strike would be aided In e, way by I the shop crafts organization. It udded this: "The officials of these organizations have done everything possible since the beginning of the strike to maintain a peaceful suspension of work. Considering Con-sidering the difficulty of preserving perfect order in any group of 400,000 men engaged In a struggle for n decent ivcllhood, It niut be admitted that the strike has been a remarkable demob stratlon of the Inw-nbldlng character of the workers Involved." This Is not borne out by the facts. So fur ns the public knows, the unions have done little or nothing to check the subotage and murderous attacks perpetrated per-petrated by the lawless elements In their organizations. Reports of dynamiting dyna-miting of bridges end homes, of cowardly cow-ardly assaults on workers und of other sets of violence are so numerous that they can only be mentioned thus in the aggregate. For several days the truln service of the Chicago and Alton road was tied up by strikes of ' trainmen, and the company sought escape from Its difficulties diffi-culties by going Into the bauds of a receiver. It was predicted many other roads might seek the same way out. PREDICTIONS that the public would have to pay for actual und Imaginary Imag-inary losses due to the coal strike are already being fulfilled. The operator and dealers, many of whom must ne (hissed among the consclenceles profiteers, prof-iteers, are raising prices of fuel, despite de-spite the efforts of puldic officials, the threats of congressional action and the protests of the miners that the mine owners have su.Tered little, if any, loss because of the stoppage of production. In some sections of the country the fuel shortage already Is becoming acute; li others there Is plenty of coal. The' railroads. It Is asserted, are not able to supply enough cars, but thut is always the case as winter approaches, ap-proaches, which Is one of the results of the wretched lack of organization of the coal Industry. , The coal fumlne Is csicc!ull threatening threat-ening In New York and the Atlantic coast region generally, because the anthracite an-thracite strike has not yet been settled. set-tled. But at this writing there is a fair chance that the hard coal miners will soon be bock at work. Senators Pepper and Reed of Pennsylvania drew up proposals for resumption of work, and the plan was submitted to the operators op-erators and the miners' scale committee commit-tee at separate meetings. AFTEii three days debate the house pushed the administration's emergency emer-gency fuel bill by a vote of 214 to 01. Ii gives the Interstate commerce commission commis-sion power t control prices of coal by the use of priorities and embargoes embar-goes ,a nil also glws, legal status to the office of federal fuel distributor. The act ceases to be In effect on January Jan-uary 1, 1924, and the operation of the powers granted by It may be suspended suspend-ed by the President whenever tie determines de-termines the present emergency has passed, and 'revived by bint If a later emergency arises. The senate resumed re-sumed consideration of the Boruh coal commission bill. EF. GRABLE, representing the Brotherhood of Maintenance o' Way Employees and Railroad Shop Laborers, last week petitioned the railway rail-way lubor board to establish a new age scale for railway workers and In doing so to recognize the principle of a "living WMge." The hoard refused to do this, the majority holding that a "just and reasonable wage," as conceived con-ceived by the board, Is a "living wage." Thereupon Mr. Gruble wired Chairman Cummins of the senate Interstate commerce com-merce committee, asking that the transportation laws he so amended as to Insure railroad employees a mini-ninin mini-ninin "living wage." 'TMIE soldiers' bonus bill wns passed - by the stimte Thursday by a vote of 47 to 22. Twenty-seven senators were paired or absent, of these It Is said 15 v ould have voted for the measure, which would give u total of (12 for the bonus In case of a veto to short of the necessary two-thirds vote to override adverse action by the President. Before passing the bill the senate on Wednesday adopted two very Important iinieniliuB' ts. The first, which w as of-fere. of-fere. McNury of Oregon, Republican, Repub-lican, provides for the appropriation of J,'!50.00( 1,000 f..r the reclamation of mid and swamp lands to provide farms for IF she can arrange with Belgium for suitable guarantees, Germany gets a moratorium for six months on the payments pay-ments due for the balance of 1922. Out of deference to the French It called s "respite" and the payments are "deferred," "de-ferred," but it is no less a moratorium. The re;iirnflon wmls!fin tertrt various plans, Including that of Sir John Bradbury, the British member, allowing a moratorium until 1923, and then unanimously adopted s proposal made by the Belgians and Italians Jointly. By this Germany Is to pay $70,000,000 worth of treasury bonds direct to Belgium, which by previous agreement Is to rei-eive all the balance due this year. The bonds have six months to mature and Berlin trust satisfy Brussels as to the guarantees for their security. In November there will be another conference to discuss the 1023 schedule payments, but until then the crisis has passed. The Ger-mans Ger-mans were mightily pleased with the result, ond It Is likely the French also are glad, for they are relieved from the necessity of carrying out their threats of Independent action against Germany or of backing down. SEVERAL great disasters occurred last week. An overloaded Chilean vessel sank near Coqulmbo ond 310 persons were drowned, only six being saved. The Japanese cruiser Niitka went down In a typhoon and It was believed t lie loss of life was heavy. In a gold mine at Jackson, Cal., 47 miners were Imprisoned in the lower levels by a fire In levels above theit, and at this writing it Is believed none of them will be rescued. |